It's the two weeks of the year when the nerds go nutty, the geeks go ape and the poindexters have a party

Thursday 16 April

Horrible Science illustrator Tony De Saulles gives you some tips on how to bring your science drawings to life! Want to draw stinky things, gross things and things that are dead? Then this is the event for you!

Thursday 16 April

Mhairi Stewart, Jim McCarthy and Barbara Melville from Scotland’s only non-fiction writing group discuss why scientists become scientists, why biographers write about them and whether any of them can be trusted to tell the truth about their lives.

Friday 17 April

Dr Alistair Isaac and Dr Alasdair Richmond, both philosophers at The University of Edinburgh, enact a debate between Hume and Reid – both writers of seminal philosophy books – about whether we should be sceptical or trusting in our pursuit of science and truth.